Family caregivers face a variety of challenges and hurdles with each new day they provide care to their senior loved ones. How do you handle this behavior? Where do I go to find this item? Who can I talk to for advice on this legal problem? Is there an agency that can help me pay … Read more
Thinking about what will happen as the end of our life draws near is not a thought many people want to have. But they should. Considering the importance of making decisions about how we want things to occur is the topic of the recent National Healthcare Decisions Day. It is a time for all of … Read more
Achoo, achoo is a sound many of us are hearing coming from every room in our houses at this time of year! Spring is sprouting everywhere all around us! The trees and shrubs are in bloom, the bulbs are opening up to the sky and the grass is turning green (not to mention the weeds) … Read more
Spring cleaning has a special meaning to many. Some are exhilarated by the mere thought while for many others it means work that can’t be marked done soon enough. Who really wants to tackle cleaning — the windows, screens, garage and all those chores — that our seniors have done their entire lives? Let’s look … Read more
It is an amazing number to think about! It is estimated that, by 2018, 29% of the direct health care workers in the United States will be over 55. Older adults who are aging successfully and who may have already retired from one career are finding themselves reentering the workforce as paid caregivers! According to … Read more
Health consciousness grows in importance as we age so that we can enjoy the activities in our life to the fullest. Family caregivers are realizing that keeping our seniors healthy will enable them to age in place more safely and with less assistance than if they are medically compromised. We have begun to be more … Read more
Scams that are perpetrated on our vulnerable seniors have been the subject of past reports here at Senior Care Corner. People who call and pretend to be representing a corporation or charity, phishing in emails, and door to door “sales” people who ask for money are the usual types of scams. Did you know that … Read more
Life’s journey is paved with passages. We go from childhood to adolescence, graduate from high school and then college, get married, have children, and then retire. Maybe we don’t all do these in the same order, but each stage in life brings challenges, opportunities, experiences, adventures and growth. We usually can see one step in … Read more
The World Wide Web is said to have been “born” in 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee worked to bring to life his concept of an information management system with a structure more like a spider’s web than was in use for the then-internet. Thank you, Tim Berners-Lee! While there is more than a generation of Americans … Read more
